«1984» adlı sesli kitaptan alıntılar, sayfa 68

Как обычно, высшие будут свергнуты средними, и те сами станут высшими; но на этот раз благодаря продуманной стратегии высшие сохранят свое положение навсегда.

В любом случае неположенное выражение лица (например, недоверчивое, когда объявляют о победе) — уже наказуемое преступление. На новоязе даже есть слово для него: — лицепреступление.

Во сне и наяву, на работе и за едой, на улице и дома, в ванной, в постели — нет спасения. Нет ничего твоего, кроме нескольких кубических сантиметров в черепе.

The choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect.

Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by enquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make?

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.